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Jail Key - February 27, 2016 |
These were my opening statements to my littlest sister as I sat down to dine with her at her favorite Sushi establishment in celebration of her 18th birthday. Being a horror movie buff, and one who is quite skeptical of the "super-natural" herself, she didn't skip a beat and responded with a squeal of delight and huge, brown, excited eyes. She was totally in.
Being the dramatic extremists we are, we agreed to step up this thrill even more, and booked ourselves a haunted cabin in the woods for the following weekend. We would be prepared. We would not be scared. Ghosts don't exist anyway, right?
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Abandoned on Angel Hill - February 26, 2016 |
What we didn't know is how undeniably and uncomfortably afraid we would really be.
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The Jail Cottage - February 27, 2016 |
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Jail Door - February 27, 2016 |
At this point, my sister and I are completely thrilled! "Oh! Look how cute it is!" my sister exclaimed. Cute? Really? Regardless of my feelings at this point, this was happening. Upon entering the cabin we were greeted by a satisfying and extra creepy creeeeeaaakkkkk from the front door.
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Stairway - February 27, 2016 |
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Two Face - February 27, 2016 |
We sat there for about an hour reading every entry carefully, hoping for a review of a terrifying night's stay. Most of them consisted of happy and relaxing honeymoon stays and wedding anniversaries. Nothing of interest really, and I soon grew bored. As leaned forward to place the book back where I had found it, I knocked another one out of place. It fell and popped open to a page where another page had been stuffed in it. (I know, like something out of a movie, it's ridiculous.) I picked up the piece of paper dated Aug. 16th, 2010. BINGO! In summary it read, "WHAT HAPPENED HERE? THAT IS THE QUESTION! IF YOU EXPERIENCE ANYTHING AT ALL, TELL DON, THE GROUNDSKEEPER, AND HE WILL TELL YOU MORE. - Michael".
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Notes - February 27, 2016 |
Soon after, sister and I are snuggled up tightly watching, but of course, the scariest movie I had in my collection. I should point out really fast; I promise there are no exaggerations, or made up shenanigans in what I have to say about my experience on this night. I am as skeptical as they come.
Why else would I be staying in a HAUNTED CABIN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WOODS?
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Spinning - February 27, 2016 |
Immediately we began debunking it. Is there a window open? Is there a vent somewhere that is causing the thing to spin? What about the fire, maybe it is creating a vacuum? Shortly after we have found no open window, no vent, and of course the fire is not creating a vacuum strong enough to move a 75 pound wooden balloon around! We even remembered that we had the windows open during the day when we were hauling in our stuff and groceries and looking at the woods around us. The balloon hadn't moved an inch then! We decide to sit back down and finish the movie with our eyes every so often flicking back to the balloon that never stopped spinning.
Halfway into our second movie, a not so scary movie (because I couldn't handle it anymore), we start to hear knocking coming from behind the wall which the couch we were sitting on was up against. My sister and I both stared at each other knowing that the shed was on the other side of the cabin, and pure nothingness was on the other side of the wall behind us making the raucous. What can you do? This is not a movie, and I am not going to go TOWARDS the sound. Duh. The sounds persisted irregularly for about 10 more minutes, then faded. We chalked it up to some animal poking around outside. That is just raccoons, right?
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Charming - February 27, 2016 |
Yet, however paranoid at this point, I finally fell asleep watching the balloon that was no longer spinning. Suddenly I sat up with a jolt that left my sister in stitches. What had just awoken me? I know something just happened! My sister said all she did was touch my hair to try and wake me. She was ready to go to bed. I didn't tell her about the rustling I heard earlier and followed her up the stairs to bed.
My GOSH is it ever hot up here?! That is a good sign, right? Usually when creepy things are happening, it gets cold and... silent. Regardless of how hot it was, my instincts told me to NOT come out from underneath the covers. After all, if something was going to come out and grab me, better to have a blanket in between you and IT. No need to feel the coldness of dead hands. Needless to say, I spent all night flopping back and forth trying to decide whether I wanted my back to the open-ness of the room, or if I wanted to be facing the open darkness of said room. I decided, as a belly sleeper, to sleep on my back with the pillow covering my eyes. Even still, every creak, every rustle, every smell that floated across our noses did NOT go unnoticed by either of us that night. It wasn't until dawn broke that morning that either of us were able to finally sleep.
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Breakfast - February 27, 2016 |
Breakfast was amazing as was our entire experience. As we were packing up the car to head home, the cabin was it's cheerful, welcoming self again. The sunlight beamed once again through the adorable treated windows, the tiny kitchen was bright again in it's yellow and red. The iron staircase hid nothing at the foot of the stairs. I never thought I could ever say that I truly had a supernatural experience. But I believe I did. Now, I certainly would never, ever become a ghost hunter like on TV or anything because, being that scared is exhausting and mind-numbing, and it's a hard feeling to describe. It's like you know you are being watched, but you can't prove it. You see and hear things happening, but you cannot explain it. This will certainly be a tough one to explain to those who are super skeptics as it's like trying to look directly at a person's aura. You just can't even though you know it's there. You can see it out of the corner of your eye, but you can never look it directly in it's eye. And frankly, I don't know if I'd ever want to.
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